Truth…what is it? Unfortunately we live in a day when many will say what is true for me may not be true for you. However, if the truth you know is more valuable than gold and someone paid the price of death so that you may come to know it, is it really relative to you and not others? At what point does it become a call to save the life of another rather than something you don’t want to impose on someone else?
Proverbs 23:23 in the Amplified Bible reads:
Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
What does that mean? Well, I believe it means that truth comes at a price. We must give something in order to know it. However, once we have sacrificed to know the truth, we shouldn’t be so quick to sell it and walk away from it, regardless of how green it looks on the other side. You see, the devil is a liar! He is a tempter that comes like a temptress. Don’t become his next victim! Guard the truth in your heart with sound judgment and discernment. Seek instruction from the Lord through prayer, through reading his word, through wise counsel. Desire to understand everything in the context of God and his kingdom rather than of earth and the ways of darkness. If you do this, then we know that by John 8:32: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
